whats really odd is conservatives are fine with killing adults knowing sometimes they just might fry an innocent person, but the second you suggest an abortion of a non sentient cluster of tumor-like cells they scream like a stuck pig.

We could go so many routes with this conversation.

good point. thanks for clarifying

As I've heard from another /. user reply just yesterday... Maybe it's something they're already considering...Maybe they aren't doing it now because the current execs running the music industry are doing just fine running the companies into the ground.

Imagine a world where Google swoops in and buys up music companies on their death beds, then releases millions of copyrighted songs to public domain. They could deliver a huge blow to Apple's music business while simultaneously producing an image of philanthropy and do-no-evilness.
Not to mention a massive burst in new art creation. Or cheaply produced marketing and advertising products that drive more sales and less create less expense for businesses.

not intending to flame, but could this be then applied to alcohol, tobacco or import tariffs?
Taxation, or tax break incentives have been used quite often (and sometimes with success) to encourage business growth or advancement of technlogies, as well as curbing undesirable or unhealthy behaviors. Are you claiming tax proposals such as the ones I've given example of are all constitutionally problematic? If not, how are they different?

Note:
-Not implying that playing video games is an undesriable activity
-I am making the assumption that this tax proposal is similar to ones I've listed.

It's a problem with poor coping skills and conflict resolution abilities.

Fatherless children and nanny-state court systems that issue jail time to 12 year olds for school yard brawls are the problem...Money wasted.

We need parents that teach personal strength. And we need to let kids practice resolving their own problems. It sounds barbaric...but we've all known some kids that beat the living crap out of eachother, then became total bros after the fight.

...because the FBI can't be bothered to actually do the real police work.

There was a discussion on /. a while back regarding this....saying the entire music industry is worth rougthly $10bn US.

Google could pony up and buy Capitol Records completely, release all copyrights held, then break up and sell what worthless assets it has left in a fire sale. While they probably have the capability to purchase the entire industry, they only need to stop there with Capitol Records aquisition.

The rest of the industry will STFU and play nice.

...Or that terrorists aren't very smart.

(brainwashed religious nuts, underwear bomber booking a one-way flight to detroit in the middle of winter with no bags or even a jacket, shoe-bomber, virgins in afterlife...)

how about legit files of your own creation that you had complete ownership of and decided to put on a cloud service?

So let's say I'm God and present you with a game of heads or tails x 1000 and gives you a choice to play or not....

1000 heads up: 1/3 of the population will die.
Anything less than 1000 heads up: I grant you and all humankind access to the unending knowledge of the universe.... How to create life, build worlds or travel to distant planets.
What would you choose? Play or go home?

And how could you possibly live with yourself knowing one day you might be the one infected with the super flu virus that kills everyone? Don't think you'll get killer flu? how do you know? It's probable right?

Is google paying for time, resources and labor to monitor for the next 20 years, or is this tax dollars at work?

I'd imagine keeping tabs on a company as expansive as google is expensive. I don't know who to be mad at; the government for intervening, or google for being a burden to the taxpayer.

If the FTC thinks google isn't playing nice with privacy, FINE them to cover the costs. If they aren't doing something wrong or worthy of penalty, get out of their business and let them run.

Do some highway driving close to the mexico border and you'll see border patrol already at work doing this. I get pulled into a random search frequently. Drug dog comes by without asking. The agent sets of a series of questions to try and make you trip up.
Agent: What citizenship are you? me: US...i didn't cross any border... Agent:Where you going?
me: San Diego
Agent: Where you coming from?
me:Phoenix
Agent: Where do you live?
me: Phoenix
Agent: Didnt you just come from El Centro?
me: well yeah...passed through it driving here... (ohyou.jpg)
Agent: How long you staying?
me: 3 days
Agent: You have anything in the trunk I should know about?
me: nope
Agent: 3 days and no clothes?
me: its in the trunk
Agent: I thought you said there's nothing in the trunk...(trollface.jpg)

I didn't sign up for this bullshit...Being treated like an ass, as if it is a priviledge to travel within my own fucking home country and prove I'm not some terrorist to everyone with a uniform.

From the article from readwriteweb--
"Senator Lieberman issued a statement saying that Amazon.com has informed his staff that the company has ceased hosting Wikileaks."

First off...go figure Joe Lieberman has anything to do with this. Second, why must Amazon.com report to Joe Lieberman and his staff for any reason? I'm not the type to boycott services for politcal views, but I'm willing to boycott Amazon for associating with such a toolbag.

I was thinking the exact same thing as I read the article. Genetic diversity should increase a species ability to stick around which makes you think how unusual something like this is still around. There are other lizards that can perform "virgin birth" but even those species still reproduce sexually when permissible.

If cloning is the only way they reproduce, they either must be genetically perfect for their environment or their environment has resisted drastic change.

Free electricity--Spoils of war.